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Equality Florida Condemns DeSantis for Defacing Pulse Memorial; Calls on Floridians to #ShowYourRainbow in Response
Equality Florida condemned Governor DeSantis for ordering part of the Orlando Pulse memorial painted over, calling it an attempt to erase LGBTQ history, and urged Floridians to gather at the site and display rainbows using #ShowYourRainbow.
Equality Florida
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Civil Rights and Parents Groups Denounce Effort to Erode Local Protections in Sarasota Public Schools
A coalition including the NAACP, Florida PTA, SPLC, and Equality Florida urged Sarasota County Public Schools to reject proposals stripping express enumeration from anti-discrimination and anti-bullying policies, calling it a capitulation to vague, nonbinding Trump administration anti-DEI guidance.
Civil Rights Nondiscrimination Parenting
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Equality Florida’s Response to AG Uthmeier Press Conference on Transgender Athletes
Equality Florida responded to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's press conference on transgender athletes, accusing him of scapegoating transgender people to deflect from scrutiny over the Everglades detention camp contracts and Hope Florida funding allegations.
Equality Florida
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The Supreme Court Sided with Politicians — We Stand with Trans Youth and Their Families
Equality Florida responded to the U.S. Supreme Court upholding Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, calling it cruel but noting it has no immediate impact on Florida, whose similar law remains under review by the 11th Circuit.
Transgender
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Statement On Arrest of Transgender Woman for Using Bathroom at Florida Capitol
Equality Florida's Nadine Smith responded to the arrest of Marcy Rheintgen, a transgender woman charged with trespassing for using the women's restroom at the Florida Capitol, calling the bathroom law cruel, unenforceable, and designed to intimidate transgender people out of public life.
Nondiscrimination Transgender
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Federal Court Of Appeals Panel Allows Florida’s Ban On Healthcare For Transgender Floridians To Take Effect While Legal Challenge Continues
A federal appeals court panel ruled that Florida's SB 254 ban on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth and restrictions for adults can be enforced while the legal challenge continues, reversing a lower court block that Equality Florida called deeply disappointing.
Transgender
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Visit Florida Removes LGBTQ Page In Petty New Stunt By DeSantis To Exclude LGBTQ Community
Equality Florida's Nadine Smith condemned Visit Florida's removal of its LGBTQ Travel page, calling the move another deliberate step by the DeSantis administration to make Florida hostile to LGBTQ residents and tourists.
LGBTQ
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Equality Florida’s Response To Pride Flag Ban Bill Stalling In Florida Senate
Equality Florida hailed the stalling of a Florida Senate bill to ban the rainbow flag as a significant victory, noting that the bill's chief supporter, John Labriola of the Christian Family Coalition, likened LGBTQ Floridians to demons during the committee hearing.
Equality Florida
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Equality Florida Condemns New DeSantis Administration Policy Denying Legal Recognition, Accurate Driver Licenses/Identification for Transgender Floridians
Equality Florida's Nadine Smith condemned a new Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles memo rescinding the policy that let transgender residents update gender markers on driver's licenses and IDs, calling it a cruel attack that threatens civil and criminal penalties.
Equality Florida
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FL Board of Governors Pass Unprecedented Rules That Impose Unconstitutional Censorship and Strip Academic Freedom
Equality Florida's Carlos Guillermo Smith condemned the Florida Board of Governors for passing rules that abolish diversity and inclusion programs at state universities and eliminate sociology as a core course, calling them unconstitutional censorship that strips academic freedom.